Sunday 6.12.2009...marked the engagement of one of my friend, Jessvin. Held in Royal Lake Club at Tasik Perdana, it was truly a 'blinged' Punjabi ceremony filled with dance and music. Not forgetting the friendly and warm welcome the family gave with an open heart to celebrate the pre-union of not just two souls; Jessvin and Arvind but the two families as well.
As usual, being us, its quite a feat to arrive at any function on time. Punctuality never been our better attribute . So we reached the hall around 6.40 pm after chirping off how late we are, the bad jam,there is no car park; when some of us should have arrived at 5.00 pm per request by the bride-to-be(I think these some of us would know who they are). Hey we cannot help it!Whats an Indian if we don't arrive at Indian timing.
Being late always has its downside, we couldn't find a table to sit at. Every single table and chair are taken. Finally, failing to find a table, we decided to steal someone table that was already occupied by 3 elders. 3 very talkative elders if you ask me.Engaging us in a conversation,they asked whether we were employed. After awhile, one quipped 'All the girls are employed.All the boys are not!'. Because the guys we stole the seats from were all unemployed! And one was a magician who looked like a bad clone of Elvis Presley. I remember the aunty saying something about the girls should be treated as a flower,'...I'm a gardener for 20 years....' when the husband intervened 'I thought you were a teacher all this while!'..hahaha...
With our stomach growling, Karen and myself resorted to cutting the queue and gettin us food to stuff-in since the official ceremony haven't started. And I was afraid by the time they actually serve us dinner, I might be a skeleton, out of starvation! After fulfilling my hunger(temporarily) we indulged in intelligent conversation on checking out the guys that were present. Coming out in conclusion that the guys mostly either to short or too young.
The engagement kicked start when the groom and his entourage of family was received by the bride's family accompanied by the beats of dhol. Arvind took his 'throne' at the beautifully decorated swing awaiting his bride.Jess made a lovely entrance(with a background music that I don't seem to remember) escorted by her brother and sister. She was so nervous and beautiful at the same time. Taking her place next to Arvind they started a mehendi ceremony where Jess's mother-in-law put on some mehendi on her hand and Jess takes her turn to pun on mehendi on 12 young girls. Her mother-in-law placed a chuni on her head(a head scarf presented to the bride from groom's mum). Finally they exchanged rings witnessed by 300 guests or at least the ones who were not busy eyeing the buffet tables. In the background, there was a slide show of Jess and Arvind photos taken by her brother to mark their 7 years together and famous Hindi love songs. And we were busy filling up the plates with gulab jamuns, barfis and foods set on the buffet table which was conveniently behind us interfered only when we paused long enough to pose for a picture. Dinner was nice but only vegetarian dishes served as groom's family were vegetarians. I only missed out on the ABC because the long queue and I was lazy and polite enough not to cut queue again =P.
There were also awesome performances by a dance group 'Bombay Rockers'.They made me tired just looking at their performances; they can really move it and shake it like you cannot believe it! Kavitha was so excited that she decided to get their business card to hire them for her wedding(which is inevitably not in the nearest future!).
With the night still being young(as per the words of the MC), they started the dance floor!Woohooo!That's what we have been waiting for! Without the fear of our sarees falling off we grooved for the Punjabi tunes the DJ spinned.90% of the songs were unknown to Kavitha and me but thanks to Karen and Jusrup who were busy showing us the moves =D.
